My sweet little boy… he is getting better at it, but he is still such a pain in the rear when it comes to sleep.

We have had more than our share of bed time problems with this little two year old and yet bed time continues to be a thorn in my side with this little one.

I interrupt the regularly scheduled program of not yet posted but will be posted later today reviews, to let you know that my Alphabet Bean Bag Tutorial was featured on Ucreate!!

This tutorial has been on my mind for quite some time now… since Christmas of last year actually. At that time I had made Noah a set of numbered bean bags following the freezer paper method that I saw on Lil Blue Boo. She’s got a great tutorial for freezer paper stenciling there, so I’m not going to repeat it.

Today is my 2 year Blogoversary!! I almost forgot about it, but then the Dr’s office called confirmed Ray’s appointment tomorrow and I remembered that his appointment is on the 19th, so today is the 18th and OH MY GOODNESS I started blogging two years ago with a post detailing Noah’s birth and some pictures of the first 10 days of his life. Anyway…

I was putting away the dirty dishes last night, when it hit me… I am the mother of a two year old toddler, who at this very minute is sleeping in a twin bed all by himself! A wave of emotion ran over me at that moment and I had to swallow hard and fight back the tears, because as much as I would like to deny it, my son is growing up.

At 5:34 am yesterday morning my baby little boy turned two!! How can that be? Where has the time gone?

Prior to being married and having children, I had made up my mind that there were things that I would and wouldn’t do in my marriage and with my children. I had thought that I knew what would be best for me and my not yet existent family just by observing others and deciding what they did right and wrong.

It’s that time of year when thousands of bloggers get together for what may be THE blogging event BlogHer… this year it’s in New York City and happens to fall just days before Noah’s birthday, so it’s a No Go for me. My good bloggy friend Stefany over at To Be Thode teamed up with Maya from Musings of a Marf Mom to bring a bit of fun and swag to us non BlogHer ’10 attending bloggers.

HAIR!!!

It’s been hot here in the Midwest. The temperature has been rising up to the high 80′s to low 90′s for the past few days now but factor in the humidity and it feels more like high 90′s to low 100′s… that’s just plain ol’ oppressively hot. While I’m loving the sunshine, I’m not a fan of feeling like you’ve walked into a sauna as soon as you open the front door.

Two years ago, Ray and I walked into the local courthouse as giddy as two teenagers. Shortly after 1pm, we walked out of the courthouse as a married couple. We went to lunch and then later to Baby’s R us to get a few more things for Noah’s room… He was due just 5 short weeks later. We didn’t tell anyone about what we did until the next day…